kisonecat

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by kisonecat 11mo ago
I was expecting diagrams of a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_system (There are so many plant metaphors in mathematics!)
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by kisonecat 1y ago
Indeed, you can find my calculus videos at https://www.youtube.com/kisonecat But maybe for a coding audience https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVtlD22Y8SQ is more entertaining.
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by kisonecat 1y ago
As the author of TikZJax, I can certainly apologize for not making more progress on this. I need to get back to this project! I'd very much like to clean up the build process.
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by kisonecat 1y ago
Author of TikZJax here... I'm endlessly distracted by other things at work, but I believe this same idea could also be used to provide real-time compilation of TeX'd documents as they're typed. Simon Rubinstein-Salzedo had su
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by kisonecat 1y ago
Resurrecting this workflow was one of the funniest things in implementing TikZJax.
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by kisonecat 1y ago
Matt Klaber?! If so, great to run into you! I mean, I'm guessing from "klabetron"... Unfortunately I don't think my "kisonecat" gives much clue to "Fowler".
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by kisonecat 2y ago
As a 40-something year old person who used ratpoison more than 21 years ago... Yeah, I feel super old now.
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by kisonecat 2y ago
AG maybe isn't so connected to software, but HoTT connects to the "functional programming" crowd. https://youtu.be/MVtlD22Y8SQ is me doing some examples.
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by kisonecat 2y ago
I wouldn't say I'm organized, but org-mode is the only tool I've ever really used to keep track of what I am doing. I've been using org-mode for >= 15 years.
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by kisonecat 2y ago
This document was hugely influential to me. It got me interested in linguistics (one of the "immaterial sciences" alongside math, comp sci). My username includes "kisone" which is from the conlang I made as a kid. It i
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by kisonecat 2y ago
I'm terrified of opening a paren and forgetting to close it! How terrifying to find a tagged paren that cannot be closed! "please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of early-blooming" <plaintext>s
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by kisonecat 2y ago
I'm a college prof in the US and know that term.
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by kisonecat 2y ago
I suspect the author uses a qwerty keyboard.
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by kisonecat 2y ago
He has made me extremely enthusiastic for heat pumps.
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by kisonecat 2y ago
I don't feel like I've gotten fewer spam calls. My favorite spam call was someone wanting to make a cash offer on the Ohio State University building that my office is in.
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by kisonecat 2y ago
Being born in 1981, the mid-2000s feel very weird to me too -- partly being in grad school in that time (and so somewhat isolated from the broader world) and yeah the rise of cell phones.
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by kisonecat 2y ago
I tried moving to Wayland and hyprland last year, but I couldn't get Zoom to handle screen sharing (specifically window sharing). I wonder if this has improved at all?
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by kisonecat 2y ago
The HN community might be interested in the XML-based tech used to produce this book, namely https://pretextbook.org/
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by kisonecat 2y ago
Totally evokes the good memories I have of "Google Wave" as a way for folks to collaborate on rich documents. Super cool.
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by kisonecat 2y ago
That Apple ad feels more like an Advernado ad -- "We can solve any problem that you think up, and find any purchase that you require, the... iPad... is a full solution..." crushing everything.
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by kisonecat 2y ago
Many communities offer a "math circle" which also builds some mathematical community. Some can be found on https://mathcircles.org/
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by kisonecat 2y ago
I like the word "maritimity"!
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by kisonecat 3y ago
For in-person summer math experiences, there is https://rossprogram.org/ among other math camps many of which are listed at https://summermathprograms.org/ Ross provides significant need-based financial aid
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by kisonecat 3y ago
Evokes the "isolinear chips" from Star Trek!
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by kisonecat 3y ago
I wrote https://github.com/kisonecat/tikzjax for running tikz in the browser with webassembly, but I have work to do to make it work better.
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by kisonecat 3y ago
https://lamington.wordpress.com/2011/12/02/laying-train-trac... is a blog post from the geometer Danny Calegari about this topic.
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by kisonecat 3y ago
I often use this example when teaching calculus: https://youtu.be/BjmypdFCl-Q
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by kisonecat 3y ago
Your experience is just like the "Carousel of Progress" at Disneyworld!
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by kisonecat 3y ago
I like the use of the term "dyad".
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by kisonecat 3y ago
It has a "Windows" key on the keyboard?

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